Andrew Tate placed under house arrest for 30 days by Romanian court

A Romanian court on Thursday placed Andrew Tate under house arrest after he was recently arrested in connection with an investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Tate, a former professional kickboxer, and his brother Tristan were among six people arrested on Wednesday after Romania’s anti-organised crime unit Diicot carried out four house raids in the Ilfov region of Bucharest.

Diicot had initially requested a 30-day prison sentence for the Tate brothers, but the court decided to place Andrew under house arrest and Tristan under judicial supervision for the same period, according to their representative, Mateea Petrescu.

Petrescu said the Tate brothers welcomed the court’s decision and categorically denied all allegations against them, calling the accusations baseless and unsupported by substantial evidence.

The Tate brothers were previously charged in mid-2023, along with two Romanian women, with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. They have always denied these charges.

Before their latest arrest, the brothers were subject to a travel ban, allowing them to move freely within Romania but not to leave the country.

A post on Tate’s social media account on X said: “All they are trying to do is tarnish my name with complete nonsense,” without specifying who he was referring to.

Diicot released a statement detailing the arrest of six individuals for alleged crimes including forming an organized criminal organization, human trafficking, human trafficking of minors, sexual intercourse with a minor and money laundering.

The agency has requested that three of the suspects be kept in custody, while one of them, now confirmed to be Andrew Tate, be placed under house arrest.

According to Diicot, two of the suspects used the “loverboy” method, in which victims were deceived into believing they were in a romantic relationship. In this way, they coerced 34 individuals into producing pornography, generating a profit of more than $2.8 million and 887,000 crypto tokens.

One suspect is accused of forcing a 17-year-old boy to produce pornography in the United Kingdom and Romania, earning him $1.5 million. He is also accused of repeatedly performing sexual acts on a 15-year-old victim.